Hi Kinak! Sorry to hear about more flu, and thanks for podcast anyhow.
Halloween questions!
- We found 18 Halloween costumes this year, a new record. Can you share how many total there are to find? Mad Doctor is neat.
- How far off were we from building a complete maze? Shame it seems we missed the ability to hide snakes but they are a neat souvenir in their own right.
- Alliance drones not getting through: was this because we hacked and intercepted all of them, or because something got messed up with the shipping from Jess's end?
- Willing to share any more hints about special collections or dorms reconstruction?
- I have tried in vain to find the Pumpkin King the last couple years. Has he been available? Can he get locked out if, for example, we don't get enough Eclipse into the crowd?
Other questions!
- Can you give us the normal update on upcoming content?
- Light of the Eye and Whiteout are both Etheric techniques that Evade damage. However the former seems to use Etheric Power and the latter uses Evasion Power. Is there a consistent way to tell how bonus power works?
Novos questions!
- Cyberbowl chipdecks seem like a really difficult way to get a pretty crappy neural link. Something hidden we are missing there?
- It seems that the Hardening of most Novos programs was scaled down to ~1/5 of the equivalent Oldos value — Midgard protection suite from 5 to 1, top shield programs from ~10 to ~2. Do you plan to rebalance the PDAs in the next little while? As it stands, a Fang PDA effectively turns Hardening from a resource to manage into an effectively limitless supply. (I would 100% support changing the Fang PDA to ~5-7 hardening and rebalancing the other PDAs rest accordingly.)
- Eurasian Reports — something hidden to find there presumably. Currently possible?
- How much more Novos revamp is in the works? You talked about rolling out the next phase in chucks but honestly the shipping drone revamp seemed like a pretty complete thing as is. Best of several worlds — a number of random results, with obvious ways to filter the results, which makes the randomness pretty manageable. As laudable the hacking revamp has been so far…I am eager to see the next stage of the main quest line…